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Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic.
This book examines how Wilkie Collins's interest in medical matters developed in his writing through exploration of his revisions of the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel from his first sensation novels to his last novels of the 1880s.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Gothic literary studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; Introduction:'A creepy sensation down the spine'; 'Sensation is [his] Frankenstein':MonomaniacObsessions in Basil, 'Mad Monkton' andTheWoman inWhite; The Substance and the Shadow: Invisibility andImmateriality in Armadale; 'My grave is waiting for me there': PhysiologicalPrisons in The Moonstone; Transformation, Epilepsy and LateVictorianAnxieties in Poor Miss Finch; The Shadows of the Past:Digging Out HiddenMemory in The Haunted Hotel; Mad Scientists: Jezebel's Daughter andHeart and Science; The Quest for Knowledge in 'I Say No'
- BornTo Kill: the HauntingTaint in The Legacyof Cain.